Digital Floor Pumps - Why?
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Digital Floor Pumps - Why?
Do you use these? Why? This may be hypocritical given my allegiance to electronic shifting...but I don't get the point?
Lezyne has some coming out...but I guess there are many others on the market? How did I miss this trend?
https://www.bikeradar.com/news/articl...or-2014-37651/
https://www.lezyne.com/de/products/fl...-digital-drive
Lezyne has some coming out...but I guess there are many others on the market? How did I miss this trend?
https://www.bikeradar.com/news/articl...or-2014-37651/
https://www.lezyne.com/de/products/fl...-digital-drive
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A digital readout does not make it accurate. But that may be their marketing hype.
Anyway, probably collusion with battery makers. As if we need one more thing to remember to keep filled with batteries.
Anyway, probably collusion with battery makers. As if we need one more thing to remember to keep filled with batteries.
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We are probably reaching a tipping point where electronic pressure transducers with digital readouts are cheaper to manufacture than mechanical analog. Expect to see more of them.
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Yeah. I guess I wouldn't mind if it was powered by stroking the pump rather than a battery that'd go bad.
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Electronic/digital of course will depend on the precision and reproducibility of the transducer over time and temperature and the quality of the stored calibration and temp compensation...and having a non-dead battery.
The thing I don't like about a purely numeric display is it's difficult to see rates of change and how close your getting as the pressure is changing. Many types of electronic displays employ synthesized analog type indicators (dials with needles, or bar-graphs) to make that easier.
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I have a digital display. I remember starting a thread about pumps in another forum. But that was mostly misunderstood and taken to serious. I have a very much larger display on my pump and it is much higher up.
It is very easy to overlook and also to tune the pressure. If one like analog display, fine! If one want digital dito, it must be considered good that we can get it!?
I never thought about the fact that it might be a hand in hand with electronic gearing, but you have a good point.
I ride mechanical though.

It is very easy to overlook and also to tune the pressure. If one like analog display, fine! If one want digital dito, it must be considered good that we can get it!?
I never thought about the fact that it might be a hand in hand with electronic gearing, but you have a good point.
I ride mechanical though.
Do you use these? Why? This may be hypocritical given my allegiance to electronic shifting...but I don't get the point?
Lezyne has some coming out...but I guess there are many others on the market? How did I miss this trend?
https://www.bikeradar.com/news/articl...or-2014-37651/
https://www.lezyne.com/de/products/fl...-digital-drive

Lezyne has some coming out...but I guess there are many others on the market? How did I miss this trend?
https://www.bikeradar.com/news/articl...or-2014-37651/
https://www.lezyne.com/de/products/fl...-digital-drive

Last edited by Avispa; 08-19-13 at 12:41 AM.
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yeah. the thing with digital displays is that the good ones work well, but YGWYPF. I had a cheap $15 Wally bathroom scale that you would step on five times and get five different weights with a precision of around five pounds. I have a little 1kg food scale that I payed $65 from Amazon, and it consistently weighs to 0.1g +- 0.1g. My new $35 Health-0-Meter bathroom scale from Amazon has a precision of +- 0.2lb, and gives the same reading every time.
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We have one of these in our bathroom: https://www.quicksupply.net/p-2959-he...c=Shoppingcom&
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The last two cars we bought have analog and digital. I guess their philosophy was why not have both!
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yeah. the thing with digital displays is that the good ones work well, but YGWYPF. I had a cheap $15 Wally bathroom scale that you would step on five times and get five different weights with a precision of around five pounds. I have a little 1kg food scale that I payed $65 from Amazon, and it consistently weighs to 0.1g +- 0.1g. My new $35 Health-0-Meter bathroom scale from Amazon has a precision of +- 0.2lb, and gives the same reading every time.
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